On 10 Mar, Matthew Dillon wrote:

> Another thing I did in DragonFly was to get rid of the crazy handling of
> the vnode's reference count during the reclaim. I don't know what
> FreeBSD-HEAD is doing now, but FreeBSD-4 dropped the ref count to 0
> and then did the crazy VXLOCK stuff. In DragonFly I changed that so
> the ref count is left at 1 (not 0) during the reclaim. This required
> fixing up a few cases that were checking the refcount against an absolute
> 0 or 1 (I forget the cases), but it made the code a whole lot easier to
> understand.

I suggested doing this a long time ago, but there seemed to be enough
side effects that I didn't try to implement it.


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